Keeping The Public Informed
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NO cartoon this week; instead (on the right), a picture. of a stand. It was, in fact, the stand which the Southern area of the Road Haulage Association put up for the Island Industries Fair at Ryde. Isle of Wight, recently. The "control panel" in the centre foreground contained a series of buttons which, when pressed, Et up on the main display the concerns offering to carry the loads marked against that button. If, for instance, someone wanted to know about removals, he pressed the button marked " Furniture Vans" and saw the information light up in front of him (Always a steady draw for schoolboys, of all ages!) "So what," some of my readers are undoubtedly saying, "it's a very nice stand, but by no means unusual." Now that was my first reaction, but then I started thinking. Stands such as this are erected all over the country by operators' associations— particularly the R.H.A. areas. Because they arc so frequently seen, and are unfailingly of such high quality, members of those associations tend to take these stands for granted. Yet what a valuable source of publicity they are. No question of a wrong public image here!
So reflect, next time your area, sub-area or division puts up such a stand at a local fair. This is your stand, and you didn't have to do a thing about it So take a bow Frank Morse (R H.A. Southern area secretary) and all those other secretaries who modestly count this sort of thing as just part of the service.
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Unusual Show
THERE are already some indications that this year's I Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court, London, is going to be one at Which some unusual vehicles will be shown. One I have already heard about is a passenger vehicle with a most unusual axle layout. It i5 also highly likely that at least one high-quantity manufacturer will move closer to the heavy field.
• Who Was It?
" T WAS a haulage contractor. 1 took a wrong turning and I entered the bus industry. I am a C-licensee. 1 am a farmer." Who could have said this?
It was Institute of Transport president James Amos (Scottish Omnibuses chief) examining his qualifications for responding
) the toast of "The Guests" at last week's T.R.T.A. annual inner in London. I need hardly add that he was at his drily umorous best.
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r HE S.P.D. chairman, Dan Pettit. may seem to be unduly L anxious to visit his new depot at Kendal rather frequently. fy sympathies are with him. Along with the land on which le depot has been built came the riparian fishing rights to a Dr y finely stocked stream which borders the depot.
I suggest that all would-be applicants for the depot-manager's ).13 form a queue—behind me!
rishy Story
ITHILST on the subject of matters piscatorial, I commend to PI' your attention the following; only the Americans, coiners f the phrase " piggy-back " (loaded semi-trailers moved on rail ragons), could do it,
After " piggy-back " has come "fishy-back." Yes," fishyack " transport is loaded semi-trailers carried on ships.
inti-bridge .
A NAVIGATOR'S nightmare in peace and a strategic hazard in war." That is what a distinguished naval M.P., :ommander Anthony Courtney, thinks about a Channel ridge. He and eight other Tory 'Members have tabled a lotion (which has little hope of discussion, I am told) inviting le Government to say this, too.
This has no connection, he told a colleague of mine, with ie Commander's membership of the Channel Tunnel 'Drum ittee.